Bidders at the fourth and final auction of the now-defunct James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on May 20, did what they had done at the previous three sales. They paid big ...

Bidders at the auction of the now-dissolved James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on April 14, drove the price of a 75-word letter signed by one Button Gwinnett to a phenomenal ...

The former Copley Library in La Jolla has a new owner and a new name, but its function as a public archive will remain unchanged. “The good news for La Jolla is it will not be sold as feared to a real ...

The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of Americana collecting, when someone with the right eye and enough money could amass museum-quality holdings of books, letters and other important pieces of ...